Table 1 Overview of environmental conditions at each station

From: Nitrogen fixation under declining Arctic sea ice

Station

Cruise

Region

Regime

Date

Transect #

DCM depth (m)

Temperature (°C)

Salinity

Chlorophyll a (µg L−1)

NO3- + NO2- (µM)

NH4+ (µM)

dSi (µM)

PO43- (µM)

DOC (mg L−1)

DOP (µM)

DON (µM)

TN (µM)

TP (µM)

POC (µM)

PON (µM)

Bacteria (cells ml−1)

PPE (cells ml−1)

Nanophytoplankton (cells ml−1)

18

SAS

CAO

Multiyear ice

8/13/21

-

22

−1.7

32.73

0.4

1.1

0.10

0.9

0.92

1.3

NA

NA

NA

NA

3.2

0.4

4.0E+05

1.9E+03

4.8E+02

26

SAS

CAO

Multiyear ice

8/20/21

-

30

−1.6

31.03

0.1

2.2

0.09

6.7

1.24

1.8

NA

NA

NA

NA

3.5

0.2

3.0E+05

1.8E+03

5.5E+02

38

SAS

CAO

Multiyear ice

8/29/21

-

33

−1.6

30.37

0.2

1.7

0.09

6.5

1.40

1.6

NA

NA

NA

NA

3.6

0.3

3.7E+05

6.1E+03

3.1E+02

50

SAS

CAO-influenced

Decaying multiyear ice

9/4/21

-

28

−1.5

30.73

1.1

1.2

0.06

5.8

1.35

1.5

NA

NA

NA

NA

4.0

0.3

3.9E+05

5.7E+03

5.8E+02

56_2021

SAS

CAO

Decaying multiyear ice

9/8/21

-

15

−1.7

31.73

0.3

1.1

0.05

1.9

0.93

1.3

NA

NA

NA

NA

6.4

0.4

1.0E+06

1.3E+04

8.0E+02

36

ATWAICE

MIZ

Atlantic open water

7/11/22

1

20

3.2

34.49

1.7

3.6

NA

3.6

0.33

NA

0.00

6.2

9.9

0.31

15.7

1.8

5.8E+05

6.8E+03

7.9E+03

37

ATWAICE

MIZ

High-melt zone

7/11/22

1

35

−1.4

34.27

1.2

7.7

NA

3.7

0.58

NA

0.00

6.5

14.2

0.50

12.8

1.2

6.2E+05

1.9E+03

4.0E+03

42

ATWAICE

MIZ

Pack ice (first year ice)

7/12/22

1

20

−1.6

33.89

1.0

4.6

NA

2.8

0.40

NA

0.04

6.5

11.2

0.44

8.1

0.7

5.5E+05

2.0E+04

4.1E+02

57

ATWAICE

MIZ

Atlantic open water

7/18/22

2

8

5.6

34.74

0.6

4.0

NA

3.3

0.38

NA

0.12

6.8

10.8

0.50

9.1

0.8

7.0E+05

4.0E+03

2.3E+03

56_2022

ATWAICE

MIZ

High-melt zone

7/17/22

2

31

−1.2

34.08

9.0

0.8

NA

3.4

0.39

NA

0.28

12.5

13.3

0.67

63.4

6.3

8.0E+05

1.4E+03

2.0E+04

61

ATWAICE

MIZ

High-melt zone

7/18/22

2

36

−0.9

34.16

4.8

2.7

NA

3.1

0.32

NA

0.17

7.5

10.2

0.49

30.2

3.5

9.4E+05

3.1E+03

1.2E+04

65

ATWAICE

MIZ

Pack ice (first year ice)

7/19/22

2

11

−1.4

33.22

8.8

0.0

NA

0.1

0.01

NA

0.17

5.4

5.4

0.18

46.7

4.1

6.0E+05

3.2E+03

1.7E+03

108

ATWAICE

LF

Land-fast ice

8/6/22

-

25

−1.4

31.38

0.3

0.3

NA

0.2

0.03

NA

0.00

1.0

1.3

0.00

7.4

0.2

3.8E+05

2.1E+03

7.6E+01

  1. SAS Synoptic Arctic Survey (2021), ATWAICE (PS131, 2022), CAO Central Arctic Ocean, MIZ marginal ice zone, LF land-fast ice, DCM deep chlorophyll a maximum (DCM), NO3 + NO2 nitrate + nitrite, NH4+ ammonium, dSi dissolved silicate, PO43− phosphate, DOC dissolved organic carbon, DOP dissolved organic phosphorous, DON dissolved organic nitrogen, TN total nitrogen, TP total phosphorus, POC particulate organic carbon, PON particulate organic nitrogen, PPE photosynthetic picoeukaryotes, NA not analysed.